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The Chairs and Vice-Chairs of the Gloucester Board of Supervisors and School Board will join together in a shared Town Meeting on Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 7 p.m. in the Thomas Calhoun Walker Education Center auditorium, located at 6099 T.C. Walker Road. Board of Supervisors members Ashley Chriscoe and John Meyer, Jr. will join Gloucester School Board members Troy Andersen and Charles Records in ...

Think you can spell? Well, here comes your chance to prove it. The Lan­caster Com­mu­nity Library is plan­ning The Great North­ern Neck Adult Spelling Bee. It will be held at 2 p.m. March 1 at 16 Town Cen­tre Drive in Kil­marnock, and will help raise funds for the new library. The bee is for ages 17 years and older.
The adult spelling bee will con­sist of ...

The long­time direc­tor of the Glouces­ter Senior Active Lifestyle Cen­ter was dis­missed from her job a week ago.
June Meador, who headed the cen­ter for 26 years, told The Gazette Jour­nal, that her dis­missal fol­lows more than a month of paid admin­is­tra­tive leave, when she was not allowed to even enter the cen­ter. Off­i­cals con­nected with the Glouces­ter Cen­ter, told the press that they could not ...

Accord­ing to War­saw Police, work recently done on the traf­fic light at U.S. Route 360 & Hardee’s by VDOT resulted in a big change and they want drivers to be cautious of the changes.
The right turn sig­nal for dri­vers on Route 360 West has been elim­i­nated. Now, dri­vers are reminded that they must obey the traf­fic sig­nal over the two through lanes while in the right turn lane attempt­ing ...

Two Com­puter Train­ing Work­shops will be held on Tues­days in Feb­ru­ary at the Northum­ber­land Pub­lic Library. The dates are Feb­ru­ary 10 and Feb­ru­ary 24 and all train­ing will start at 1:30 p.m. The Feb­ru­ary 10 train­ing ses­sion will focus on eBooks. The Feb­ru­ary 24 class will help peo­ple learn to use the Mango lan­guage pro­gram. That lan­guage learn­ing pro­gram has been made avail­able to library ...

Four­teen grants total­ing $1.7 mil­lion have been awarded by Virginia’s land con­ser­va­tion board, which will help add 5,700 pre­served acres. The grants are used by pri­vate land trusts, local gov­ern­ments and state agen­cies to pro­tect farm and forest­land, his­toric area and open spaces.
Gov. Terry McAu­li­ffe announced the fund­ing late last week, call­ing the grants “money well spent.”

A report of lar­ceny and dam­age prop­erty at the park­ing lot of Glouces­ter Point Beach. A cat­alytic con­verter was stolen from a Toy­ota pickup, and a pickup had the cat­alytic con­verter dam­aged in an attempt to remove it. The vehi­cles were parked beside each other on Mon­day when it hap­pened between 6:45 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Police additionally report that a vehi­cle had its wind­shield smashed ...